Genome wrote:

> was not punch cards or tape used as storage when the first computer like 
> mechanisms were invented.. a hole and no hole on paper.. this were a lot 
> older than those vacuume tube computers.. they are more like type writers. I 
> think.

That's how I had to do my first programming course in university. Was only
a beginner's introduction, in FORTRAN... that was the last I saw of FORTRAN
and of the punch cards, even though I hear FORTRAN is still alive and well
:)

IIRC there are some guys around here who actually did some useful work with
such cards. 

Gerhard

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